USA: Johnson Controls Files Suit Against Exide Corp.

Johnson Controls, Inc. today confirmed that it filed a complaint against Exide Corporation and three of its former highest-ranking officers, Arthur Hawkins, Alan Gauthier and Douglas Pearson. The complaint alleges that the commercial bribery of a former Sears, Roebuck and Co. battery buyer was a cause of Johnson Controls losing its battery supply contract with Sears in 1994.

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